Best Value Survival Games
The Survival games that stretch a budget furthest: median reviewer playtime divided by current price. Pick your currency in the top bar to rank against your local prices.
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By price
Price divided by median reviewer playtime — how much you pay per hour of gameplay. Lower is better. Reviewers tend to sink more hours in than the average owner, so treat this as an optimistic estimate. Free games are excluded because there's no price to divide by.
- 1Starbound$0.04/1hr120h89.63%90.00%
- 2Dead by Daylight$0.05/1hr404h78.51%78.44%
- 3Crosshair X$0.06/1hr159h91.83%93.37%
- 4FTL: Faster Than Light$0.06/1hr54h93.96%95.11%
- 57 Days to Die$0.07/1hr635h86.71%86.76%
- 6Kenshi$0.09/1hr138h94.72%95.56%
- 7Among Us$0.09/1hr33h91.90%91.99%
- 8Terraria$0.09/1hr107h97.30%97.38%
- 9My Time at Portia$0.10/1hr62h90.31%91.51%
- 10Brotato$0.10/1hr31h95.18%96.06%
- 11Valheim$0.10/1hr96h93.83%93.99%
- 12Death Road to Canada$0.10/1hr21h88.93%92.73%
- 13theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.11/1hr37h88.88%89.07%
- 14Beasts of Bermuda$0.11/1hr178h77.10%68.97%
- 15Rust$0.12/1hr342h86.81%86.82%
- 16Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.12/1hr243h79.47%79.00%
- 17Trailmakers$0.12/1hr40h90.61%92.09%
- 18Deep Rock Galactic$0.13/1hr71h96.82%97.14%
- 19Factorio$0.13/1hr274h96.99%97.51%
- 20Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.13/1hr51h85.55%86.85%
- 21RimWorld$0.13/1hr269h97.35%97.86%
- 22ARK: Survival Evolved$0.13/1hr114h83.35%83.33%
- 23Eco$0.13/1hr225h82.50%80.73%
- 24Satisfactory$0.14/1hr194h96.83%97.26%
- 25TerraTech$0.15/1hr42h89.55%91.39%
- 26DayZ$0.15/1hr167h77.93%77.77%
- 27This War of Mine$0.15/1hr20h93.02%93.85%
- 28Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr66h95.58%95.99%
- 29Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.15/1hr26h93.74%96.02%
- 30Mortal Online 2$0.17/1hr241h70.52%60.08%
- 31Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.17/1hr36h72.19%70.87%
- 32The Planet Crafter$0.18/1hr65h94.70%96.05%
- 33Crashlands$0.19/1hr28h86.80%89.50%
- 34Left 4 Dead 2$0.19/1hr53h97.41%97.52%
- 35Scrap Mechanic$0.19/1hr154h91.47%92.02%
- 36Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr26h96.92%97.70%
- 37Cluckmech Oasis$0.19/1hr52h85.85%88.29%
- 38V Rising$0.19/1hr81h88.68%88.95%
- 39SKYHILL$0.19/1hr5h82.52%78.23%
- 40Green Hell$0.20/1hr19h84.75%84.72%
- 41Generation Zero$0.20/1hr25h74.52%72.03%
- 42R.E.P.O.$0.20/1hr32h95.80%96.06%
- 43Frostpunk$0.21/1hr22h92.20%92.73%
- 44Space Engineers$0.21/1hr97h88.59%88.86%
- 45Tainted Grail: Conquest$0.21/1hr19h87.23%89.95%
- 46Town of Salem$0.21/1hr24h87.26%87.88%
- 47SCUM$0.21/1hr216h74.98%74.18%
- 48The Isle$0.21/1hr95h80.53%80.15%
- 49Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr23h93.27%94.12%
- 50Fallout 4$0.21/1hr93h81.27%81.19%
- 51From the Depths$0.22/1hr113h87.38%89.26%
- 52Soulmask$0.23/1hr105h79.63%77.20%
- 53Per Aspera$0.23/1hr32h81.67%75.91%
- 54Project Zomboid$0.23/1hr86h93.81%94.01%
- 55Endzone - A World Apart$0.23/1hr11h80.88%76.75%
- 56Stationeers$0.23/1hr150h86.29%87.72%
- 57Resident Evil 6$0.24/1hr21h78.27%77.31%
- 58Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.24/1hr105h89.71%90.50%
- 5920 Minutes Till Dawn$0.24/1hr12h89.16%90.61%
- 60Ratopia$0.24/1hr54h85.89%87.80%
- 61God Of Weapons$0.25/1hr11h84.69%84.13%
- 62The Long Dark$0.25/1hr79h88.66%88.96%
- 63Subsistence$0.25/1hr42h77.44%71.95%
- 64Far Cry$0.25/1hr12h83.27%81.81%
- 65Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander$0.25/1hr56h90.26%94.39%
- 66Space Haven$0.25/1hr60h85.41%85.80%
- 67Blood and Bacon$0.25/1hr4h93.04%95.25%
- 68Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.30%
- 69No Man's Sky$0.26/1hr93h84.97%84.97%
- 70Picayune Dreams$0.26/1hr19h89.32%98.92%
- 71Mindustry$0.26/1hr39h92.86%95.72%
- 72Terraformers$0.26/1hr31h85.91%88.41%
- 73Planetbase$0.26/1hr57h82.30%79.73%
- 74Resident Evil 4$0.26/1hr38h96.88%97.33%
- 75ASKA$0.27/1hr75h82.17%79.82%
- 76Captain of Industry$0.27/1hr89h87.76%90.22%
- 77Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.28/1hr11h89.81%93.24%
- 78ICARUS$0.28/1hr25h75.82%74.42%
- 79A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.28/1hr14h92.22%93.25%
- 80Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.28/1hr88h85.41%85.59%
- 81Aliens: Fireteam Elite$0.28/1hr21h81.13%79.70%
- 82Palworld$0.29/1hr104h94.18%94.38%
- 83Core Keeper$0.29/1hr48h91.89%92.95%
- 84Dwarf Fortress$0.29/1hr102h92.41%94.79%
- 85The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.30/1hr24h83.20%80.53%
- 86Medieval Dynasty$0.30/1hr58h89.53%90.41%
- 87Resident Evil 0$0.30/1hr17h81.81%80.16%
- 88Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide$0.30/1hr10h81.54%79.94%
- 89EVERSPACE$0.30/1hr7h81.41%78.29%
- 90Sunkenland$0.30/1hr66h81.78%80.43%
- 91Stonehearth$0.30/1hr66h79.49%75.28%
- 92The Matchless Kungfu$0.31/1hr33h82.80%80.03%
- 93Bloons TD 6$0.31/1hr45h96.89%97.19%
- 94Oxygen Not Included$0.31/1hr80h95.97%96.74%
- 95Jurassic World Evolution$0.32/1hr39h87.05%87.43%
- 96Timberborn$0.32/1hr77h93.81%95.98%
- 97Resident Evil 5$0.32/1hr15h86.70%86.96%
- 98WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition$0.32/1hr61h92.09%97.52%
- 99Aliens: Dark Descent$0.33/1hr36h86.71%87.65%
- 100Barotrauma$0.33/1hr60h93.10%94.02%
How the math works: we sample each game’s Steam reviewers, take the median of their total recorded playtime (lifetime hours, not hours at the time of review), and divide it by the game’s current price in your selected currency. Reviewers usually sink more hours in than the average owner, so the numbers run generous. Free games aren’t listed because there’s no price to divide by, and a game needs playtime data from at least 20 reviewers before it qualifies. All prices are Steam’s own regional prices, never exchange-rate conversions.